Sentences with phrase «heart attack deaths»

Recent government programs to incentivize better heart attack care have focused on capping the total payment a hospital or health system can get for the first 30 days of post-heart attack care, and publicly reporting how hospitals stack up against others in heart attack deaths.

With colleagues, I have calculated that this has prevented approximately 9000 stroke and heart attack deaths per year.

Heart attack deaths spike during the period between Christmas and New Year's — and not because of cold and flu season.

For two decades, it has killed more women than men, and the gap is actually widening as mens heart attack death rates improve faster than womens.

These include 46,000 heart attack deaths and 3,400 lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke.

About half of all heart attack deaths occur before a person reaches the hospital.

The agency states that further reducing trans fats in American diets could prevent 10,000 - 20,000 heart attack deaths and 3,000 - 7,000 coronary heart disease deaths every year.